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The effects of computers and acquired skills on earnings, employment and college enrollment : evidence from a fields experiment and California UI earnings records

Fairlie, Robert W.; Bahr, Peter Riley - 2018

This paper provides the first evidence on the earnings, employment and college enrollment effects of computers and acquired skills from a randomized controlled trial providing computers to entering college students. We matched confidential administrative data from California Employment...

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The effect of Internet piracy on CD sales : cross-section evidence

Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2004

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Piracy of digital products : a critical review of the economics literature

Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2003

Digital products have the property that they can be copied almost costlessly. This makes them candidates for non-commercial copying by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality, copying products can become a wide-spread phenomenon this can be...

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Early-life circumstances predict measures of trust among adults : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany

Hörl, Maximiliane; Kesternich, Iris; Smith, James P.; … - 2016

Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and construct a measure of hunger exposure from official data on caloric rations set monthly by the occupying forces providing regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure...

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Joint confidence sets for structural impulse responses

Inoue, Atsushi; Kilian, Lutz - 2016

bootstrap, allowing the construction of asymptotically valid joint confidence sets for any subset of structural impulse … represent the joint confidence sets in the form of "shotgun plots" rather than joint confidence bands for impulse response … functions. Several empirical examples demonstrate that this approach not only conveys the same information as confidence bands …

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Evolutionary norm enforcement

Güth, Werner; Ockenfels, Axel - 2000

Applying an indirect evolutionary approach with endogenous preference formation, we show that a legal system can induce players to reward trust even if material incentives dictate to exploit trust. By analyzing the crowding out or crowding in of trustworthiness implied by various verdict rules,...

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Political entrenchment and GDP misreporting

Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Skali, Ahmed; Torgler, Benno - 2019

By examining discrepancies between officially reported GDP growth figures and the actual economic growth implied by satellite-based night time light (NTL) density, we investigate whether democracies manipulate officially reported GDP figures, and if so, whether such manipulation pays political...

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Measuring ethnic stratification and its effect on trust in Africa

Hodler, Roland; Srisuma, Sorawoot; Vesperoni, Alberto; … - 2018

We define and axiomatically characterize an index of ethnic stratification that measures the extent to which the hierarchy in socio-economic positions across the individuals of a society follows ethnolinguistic lines. This index generalizes the idea of between-group inequality to situations...

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Determinants of trust : the role of personal experiences

Schwerter, Frederik; Zimmermann, Florian - 2019

Social interactions pervade daily life and thereby create an abundance of social experiences. Such personal experiences likely shape what we believe and who we are. In this paper, we ask if and how personal experiences from social interactions determine individuals' inclination to trust others?...

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Trust, investment and competition : theory and evidence from German car manufacturers

Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2019

Based on data from a comprehensive benchmarking study on buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry, we show that more trust in a relationship is associated with higher idiosyncratic investment by suppliers and better part quality - but also with more competition among...

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